Texas will elect one U.S. Senator and 38 members to its U.S. House delegation. 

Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, is running for reelection and has raised nearly $1.7M. The race is considered “Likely Republican” by The Cook Political Report. Democrat Jasmine Crockett has raised almost $2M.

James Talarico has a substantial financial edge in the primary over Crockett, having raised over $13M. 

Four Democratic incumbent women – Elizabeth Fletcher (TX-7), Veronica Escobar (TX-16), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), and Julie Johnson (TX-33) – are running for reelection. Two Republican incumbent women are running for reelection: Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24). De La Cruz with over $2M has the highest average total raised amongst all the women. Forty-one percent of her funds are from self-financing. 

Of the U.S. House incumbents, the two Republican women reported a higher average total raised than the 17 incumbent Republican men, whereas the average amount raised by the Democratic women is lower than the average raised by the Democratic men.

In TX-34, considered a “Toss Up Democratic” by The Cook Political Report, campaign finance data is available for 10 men and one woman—Maya Flores. Former congresswoman Flores leads the money race for Republican candidates with over $1M raised. The Democratic incumbent, Vicente Gonzalez, has raised $856,129.

For the most part, men are leading the money race in the state’s open seats. However, in TX-9, with $947,533, Republican Alexandra Mealer leads the money race in a crowded field; the seat is considered  “Solid Republican” according to The Cook Political Report.

TX-30, considered  “Solid Democratic” by The Cook Political Report, is an open seat; campaign finance data are available for four men candidates and no women. Republican Sholdon Daniels leads the money race with $346,857. 

In TX-38, Shelly Dezevallos has raised $653,005 for the ”Solidly Republican” seat, with Jon Bonck raising the most (over $1M) of the Republican field.

Across the open-seat races in Texas, and within both parties, the average raised by women is lower than the average raised by men. The top fundraiser in contests for open seats is Republican Mark Teixeira (TX-21) with over $2.9M raised. Overall, Republican women are poorly represented as open-seat candidates in races that are expected to elect a Republican; this gender imbalance is evident nationwide in the campaign finance data.

Republican women running as U.S. House challengers in Texas have a higher average raised than Republican men, though there are far more Republican men with campaign finance data than women. Democratic men running as U.S. House challengers have raised a higher average amount than their Democratic women counterparts; similar to the Republican data, fewer Democratic women than men have campaign finance filings. 

Republican men running for the U.S. House open seats in Texas have the highest average proportion of self-financing of the gender and party candidate groups with 54%. Democratic women have a somewhat higher average percentage of funds from self-financing than Democratic women in open-seat House races in Texas. For U.S. House challengers in both parties, men’s average share of receipts from self-financing exceeds women’s.

Democratic and Republican women running in open seats have a higher average proportion of small contributions than their men counterparts do. The difference in proportion of small contributions for the U.S. House challenger candidates is minimal between Democratic men and women, but significant between Republican men (19%), and Republican women (73%).